Meet the Million-Dollar 'Jewelry' PC

Moneual, a California manufacturer of dedicated home theater PCs and cases, will be making a Jewelry PC that will cost $1,000,000, the company announced at CES 2007.

LAS VEGAS—Moneual, a California manufacturer of dedicated home theater PCs and cases, will be making a Jewelry PC that will cost $1,000,000, the company announced at CES 2007. The company is determining which of two styles, designed by jewelry designer Lee Charles Buckingham, will become the first million dollar personal computer. The million dollar system will integrate real diamonds and other precious jewelry into the chassis of the system.

The company suggests that it may also make 100 additional PCs, encrusted with semi-precious stones, possibly at around $30,000 each. These "luxury PCs" will ship with extended levels of support, including technology upgrades every couple of years, at no additional cost.

Specifically, there will be three models: the Baroque, an 18K gold, "hand-fabricated" PC, encrusted with an estimated 11 carats of fine diamonds from F-G/VS to VVS quality and 128.5 carats of top blue sapphires; the Renaissance, which mixes 18K white and yellow gold with a larger amount of diamonds, or 38.38 carats of F-G/VS to VVS diamonds, 3.14 carats of emeralds, and 52.56 carats of rubies; and the Rococo, which combines 18K yellow and white gold, 55.18 carats of F-G/VS to VVS diamonds, 3.5 carats of blue sapphires. 7.40 carats of fine Burmese rubies, and 3.5 carats of blue sapphires.

Within the Jewelry PC, Moneual has placed the following components: the choice of either an Intel Core 2 Duo or Athlon 64 FX; Windows Vista Ultimate Edition; 8 Gbytes of DRAM; an Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX; 2 terabytes worth of 7,200-RPM SATA storage; a Blu-ray or HD DVD drive; an Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX with 768 Mbytes of RAM, a keyboard and wireless mouse. The PC also includes a 7-inch touch screen mounted on the front, as well as a multimedia card reader, a TV tuner, and integrated 7.1-channel sound.

In addition to these luxury PCs, Moneual sells a range of high end media-centric personal computers with touch-screen front panels, ultra-quiet power supplies and embedded liquid cooling. One of the more interesting aspects of the Moneual design is a combined power supply and liquid cooling system that takes up little internal space, offers efficient cooling and considerably reduces noise levels.